Chapter 507: Chapter 507: The Su family’s Unscrupulous Second Sister
The Director was the first to raise his teacup. "Come, let’s toast with tea instead of wine. Congratulations to Professor Xia and our dear nurse—it looks like wedding bells are in your future."
Vice Director Xu also chimed in with a smile, "Yuanyuan, so he’s the one you like! And now he loves you very much, too. Your uncle truly wishes you both happiness."
"I also sincerely wish you happiness," Frank said in a foreign language.
Gu Jiaojiao, her eyes crinkling with a smile, said, "Professor Xia, you’d better thank your matchmaker properly, haha!"
"We should thank Gu Jiaojiao. If you hadn’t reminded me, I really would have missed out on my little girl."
Xia Qiuming took Xu Yue’s hand, and they both stood up, thanking Gu Jiaojiao with a smile.
After hearing Professor Xia’s bold words, Xu Yuexue’s face flushed with a trace of shyness.
She glanced affectionately at the man beside her, only to see him staring back intently, a faint smile playing on his lips.
’His eyes were full of tenderness. This was something she’d never even dared to dream of!’
’Her heart felt as sweet as if she’d eaten a pound of expensive sugar—so sweet it felt unreal.’ She secretly pinched her thigh. Ouch, that hurt.
Professor Xia saw the little girl’s childish action, and in that instant, his heart felt like it exploded, bursting with the sparks of love.
He squeezed her small hand forcefully, making Xu Yue cry out, "Ow, that hurts."
"Let me blow on it for you. It’s my first relationship, so I’m a little excited," Professor Xia said, embarrassed.
"I don’t blame you. The pain lets me know this is real and that I’m not dreaming," Xu Yue whispered in a voice only the two of them could hear.
But Gu Jiaojiao overheard and couldn’t help but sigh, "Truly a perfect couple."
"Yeah, they’re so well-matched! I’m so jealous of Vice Director Xia," the jokester at another table was the first to stand up and agree with Gu Jiaojiao.
Other surgeons also chimed in, "Nurse Xu is really something, managing to win over our Vice Director Xia."
"Isn’t that the truth! He’s the untouchable flower on a high peak of our hospital! I’m so impressed by her."
Professor Xia accepted everyone’s blessings with a broad smile, then raised his teacup and said to all, "Thank you for your blessings. I will find a time to visit the Xu Family and formally propose marriage."
Of everyone present, only the young female surgeon offered no congratulations. She was miserable.
She looked at the beaming Professor Xia, and her vision blurred. The pain in her heart was like the pricking of a needle, so sharp it felt like she was suffocating.
Yet, she fought back the stinging in her eyes and asked with a bright smile, "Excuse me, Professor Xia, why would you rather marry a little nurse than a surgeon who could stand shoulder-to-shoulder with you?"
"I want to marry her because I love my little girl, of course. Why would I want to marry a surgeon?" Professor Xia said coolly.
At his words, the young female surgeon’s body suddenly stiffened, and the smile froze on her lips.
She asked, unwilling to give up, "This nurse has only been at the hospital for a short time. Do you even know her?"
She looked at Professor Xia pitifully, but her teary-eyed appearance only served to irritate Xia Qiuming.
Just then, Gu Jiaojiao, sitting next to Frank, spoke up. "Comrade," she said coldly, "how can you ask our Professor Xia such a question?"
"Professor Xia met our Yuanyuan and even held her at her hundred-day celebration. Have you no shame, asking something like that?"
Vice Director Xu loudly questioned the young female surgeon. It wasn’t that he disliked her; he just felt that his future nephew-in-law couldn’t be snatched away by someone else.
"You..." The female surgeon’s eyes widened as she glared at Vice Director Xu, but while she was furious, she dared not say a word.
"It’s a wonderful thing that Vice Director Xia has found someone he loves today. Let’s all say a little less," the Director interjected, trying to smooth things over.
"Is everyone full? Then let’s go home." Gu Jiaojiao was the first to stand up, eager to get back.
Witnessing someone else’s love story made her think of her own man—tall, handsome, and ramrod straight, with the unique aura of a soldier.
She remembered when she first met him. His long, narrow, deep-set eyes always held a cold, sharp glint, hinting at a killer’s edge.
But now, whenever he saw her, those same deep eyes were filled with affection, following her around like a puppy’s.
The man Gu Jiaojiao was missing, Su Shuochi, was in a factory laboratory at that very moment, taking a complaining call from his younger sister.
"Big Brother, you have to think of something! Second Sister said she’s going to bring her whole family to our house for the New Year. Will Sister-in-law start to hate us then?"
"She’s not that kind of person. Chun Ni, don’t be so anxious. If Mom and Dad want to give the money they earn to Second Sister, we have no objections."
"Big Brother, don’t you get it? This isn’t about whether you object or not anymore. It’s about Second Sister’s endless demands. Mom and Dad are heartbroken."
"Mm. I’ll tell your sister-in-law when I get home and have her call you back. I have something to do, so I’m hanging up now."
A dial tone sounded from the other end of the line, leaving Su Qinchun flustered and helpless. She didn’t dare call her sister-in-law.
It was because her sister-in-law had previously configured the phone somehow so that Second Sister couldn’t get through for a long time.
After her big brother and sister-in-law left for the Imperial City, her parents’ lives had been quite orderly at first.
But ever since the Mid-Autumn Festival, her mother couldn’t help but buy a large amount of clothes, shoes, and food to send to her second sister.
She understood her mother’s mindset at the time. All children are one’s own flesh and blood. Since they were doing well, it was only natural to want to help her second sister out a little.
But not long after receiving the items, her second sister found the time to visit their home.
Seeing how well their family was living, her second sister tearfully complained to their parents about how hard her life was in the countryside.
Meanwhile, they were living it up in the city. She even accused their parents of scorning the poor and favoring the rich, saying they didn’t want to keep in touch with her.
Her second sister also claimed that her son and daughter missed their maternal grandparents very much and that they couldn’t get through whenever they tried to call.
After hearing this, her parents immediately called the brigade office where her second sister was. The call went through right away, confirming that calls from their end could not get in.
"Dad, Mom, see? I wasn’t lying. Your daughter really misses you. Before, when Big Brother was paralyzed and we didn’t have a phone at home, I had no way to reach you even when I missed you."
Her father’s heart was softened by his second daughter’s sweet talk, so he went to the post and telecommunications office to find someone to fix the telephone.
When her second sister saw the home phone was fixed, she happily went home, claiming she had to go to collective labor and didn’t have time to stay longer.
When she left, it was like a devil entering the village—she took all the cured meat they had drying and all the rice stored in the kitchen.
What was even more terrifying was that her second sister and her children started calling every other day, asking their parents for money and new clothes.
Her parents were soft-hearted and would rather exhaust themselves than refuse their second daughter. So, they started working their street stall day and night to earn money.
They weren’t afraid of the wind or the rain, but her mother’s complexion had become very poor from the exhaustion recently. It broke her heart to see, but she still didn’t dare to call her sister-in-law.
Because it was her sister-in-law who had done something to their phone, which was why her second sister hadn’t been able to call in the first place.
Now the phone was fixed!
But her parents’ health was being destroyed by the exhaustion!
